What’s there to mod until there’s some content and users to mod?
And moderating is more than just deleting posts for whatever reason. Banner, sidebar, rules, news, featured posts, advertising the community elsewhere, interacting with different instances etc. is also part of that, and a mod that hasn’t logged in since the day they created their account is not doing any of these.
All of this has to be done before user-generated content shows up, or at least soon after. What the communities got instead, are 2 months of inactivity.